It's hard to look away from the endless horrors coming out of the US, but many are making the point that ICE is trying to create enough civil unrest that Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress change in the midterm elections.

Also, fuck you Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem you soulless, lying, evil corrupt ghouls. It will catch up with you. RIP Alex Pretti.

I'm trying to do some work this morning, but I can't look away from watching Alex Honnold climb Taipei 101. So insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My game is almost at the point of being playable in a "thin vertical slice" kinda way. Is it a good idea to add an early playtest to Steam to gather feedback? Despite the full game being a long way off? Or is it better to add this early playtest to a platform like Itch.io first? #indiedev #gamedev

This was an interesting read: American democracy on the brink a year after Trump’s inauguration, experts say | Donald Trump | The Guardian share.google/Adgmj5RWIu1w...

Trump is not well. 25th Amendment now.

The Rip on Netflix is... not good. Make movies less smug again.

As Trump has given Europe, Canada, and at least half of the USA a common enemy, I'm hoping there's at least some semblance of reason - or someone close to Trump that can explain to him (and maybe draw him some nice pictures) - that threatening to invade Greenland isn't a good idea.

Starmer is an empty suit, but I also feel bad for him (kinda) for having to walk the tightrope of appeasing Trump (a supposed ally), at the same time trying to stand up to him. In short, I wouldn't be able to *NOT* call Trump out for being a dangerous, unhinged narcissist and total fucking idiot.

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

YMMV, but if you use VSCode's built-in Copilot chat for debugging and sanity checking, I would advise against using 'Agent' mode, as it seems to create more problems than it solves. I'd opt for the 'Plan' mode instead. That provides useful info instead of running amok.

I've been receiving a few emails from Vercel recently stating that my #guitar learning web app I made: fretmap.app must be moved to a more expensive tier (or it will be paused 😬). So I'm still looking for people willing to help keep it alive (if it's useful for you)...

How hard is it to make a good detective video game? The story behind the excellent The Seance of Blake Manor, whose developers were changing integral parts of the design six months before release, might help answer that question. New column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I've been doing some web development work today and tried to use GPT-5 to help speed up the process. It absolutely fucking did NOT. I genuinely cannot believe how fucking useless it is. It just constantly LIES.

🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”

It needs some work, but I've added a "Perfect shot" notification to my game. It's quite difficult to get a perfect shot, so this might be the only time you'll see it. #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #anicegameaboutballs

I only just realised you can add devlogs to your #game on #steam. store.steampowered.com/news/app/407...

Apropos of nothing, I'm watching Watergate: Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President. www.imdb.com/title/tt8904...

Hey #GodotEngine UI pros. I'm having (another) battle with Godot's UI system - anyone know what's going on? I have a parent Control (110x110) and a child HBoxContainer that *refuses* to be anything other than 150x150. I can't find a way to resize it. Does anyone know why?

I don't know if I posted about this, but I added stunt cam(s) and slow motion effects to my game. 88.5% more badass. 🎥 #indiegame #indiedev #solodev

I've tried so many times to get into Cyberpunk 2077 and every time I end up staring at my phone instead. I'm not sure why I get bored with it so quickly.

In Fellowship of the Ring (Ext.), Frodo & Sam are smoking pipe weed when they suddenly see wood elves. Nah, they were just high as hell.

I hadn't played Bloodborne in a few years and... it's tough huh? I might be under-leveled because that guy on the tower with the gun is bullying the heck out of me. I can barely scratch him. Ran out of bullets trying to shoot him off the roof.

😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKlf...

I'm currently watching Road to Perdition again. I don't know if this film ever got the love it deserves. It's gold! And that Thomas Newman soundtrack ❤️.

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner! The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is… 🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

I've thrown together a new devlog for my game: ghosthorses.co.uk/blog/making-... - now with added screenshots to make it more interesting. #solodev #indiedev #godot

Holy heck, a 2.5 hour #ymfah Baldur's Gate 3 video 😍 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Df...

Tonight I've had a stout, got a little high, ate some great snacks, and am doing a Terminator 1 & 2 double bill. Could be the best night of my life?

Not for the first time, I've just been abruptly unmatched by someone on a dating app after mentioning I'm currently making a video game. 🫠

I'm late to Pluribus, but so good! I love shows that aren't afraid to just run with their ideas.

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

I discovered I may need to implement a 'puke' system in my game, as randomly spawned items can end up lodged in the 'chompy mouth' hazard and cause physics chaos. Eating more than one banana at a time is a choking hazard. 🙃🍌🤮 #godotengine #indiedev

I'm so damn hyped for a new Larian game. I'd post the trailer, but... heck... 😧 www.polygon.com/larian-studi...

Yesterday, my shower started leaking again. Luckily, I'm a bit of a handyman.

I'm watching #DayOfTheDevs on YouTube and had to turn the chat off because the incels keeps writing "woke" about everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nCX...

I haven't played Morsels yet - but I'll be damned if I haven't listened to the soundtrack 1000000000 times. open.spotify.com/album/540UWo...

I've been streaming myself playing Dark Souls (prepare to die edition) recently. It's a good job no-one watches because I've remembered how much the end bosses piss me off. Yesterday Bed of Chaos, tonight, Nito!

[one year into gamedev] man fuck the pleasure of craft why isn't this done

Oh man... I've just spent 40 hellish minutes getting killed over and over by Bed of Chaos in Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition. Did they change it up and make it less annoying in the remastered version? Because wtf.

I kinda feel I've made some real strides in the game I'm making recently. It's super satisfying when things begin to 'click'. I'm looking forward to updating my Steam page with newer - more interesting - stuff. store.steampowered.com/app/4079120/...

I only recently heard of DARVO ("Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender"), but you see it so often with people like Trump and his cabinet and people like Farage and Reform. It's good to be able to point out exactly what they're doing and how they get away with all the horrible shit they do.

Today in Blender, I created a low-poly silly goose (or two).

This is an indulgence at a time when I shouldn't indulge, but I treated myself to the Alan Lee illustrated versions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ♥️

www.npmjs.com is down, huh.

I can't wait to play Horses. Keep games weird. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--mC...

This has been a great year for the engine, but there are still a lot of things we would love to do. If each person visiting our website donated €5, we could hire 5 more developers to work on Godot full-time. 👉 fund.godotengine.org

We're very lucky we get free tutorials online to teach us how to do stuff, but it would be nice if they weren't so often like this:

I've started playing Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition for the first time since 2013: youtu.be/bJ6nHJ_Wngw?...

The Beatles Anthology documentary series is on Disney+ now. I remember being completely consumed with these docs as a kid in the 90s. I'm still consumed with it now. So much magic and joy.